Starke can use stack shenanigans with untaps to stay on my side of the battlefield. Treason effects give me first targets for Starke. I can use them to get him back in a pinch too.

The Starke Double-Tap:

Target an Indestructible or creature/artifact you control with StarkeWith that on the stack, use an untap effect to untap StarkeTarget a creature/artifact that you want to blow up.The second Starke activation on the stack goes off and blows up the creature, transferring Starke to that controllerThe first Starke activation then resolves and brings Starke back to your side.

Odd, Homeward Path didn't make it over into this list. It's definitely in the deck. I'll fix!

Ya know, I had Glaring Spotlight in the maybe pile and I kept going back and forth on it. I'll keep it in my brain while playing a couple games. I have a whole stack of maybe cards I'll use as a "sideboard" to help evolve the deck.

But Darksteel Myr is my lil' buddy! I've done so much with him! I think Scuttling Doom Engine would be a good replacement.

played three games last night. First two games I had mana issues (poorly shuffled new deck) the third though...wow what a game.

Trading Post was the all-star. Avarice Totem was MVP, especially with Trading Post

I had all sorts of fun shenanigans with Starke and Illusionist Bracers and Avarice Totem. I took one person out with a monstrified Colossus of Akros and a stolen Rafiq. The other two I had to whittle down and I stopped a lot of Reaper King issues with Torpor Orb. Trading Post played well there too. I stole a Restoration Angel and I put Splinter Twin on it. I had a good loop of "sac Torpor Orb, do something with 'twin Angel, sac twinned Angel, get torpor orb back"

Hm, so I got yelled at the other day for playing Blood Moon. This was from a guy that very rarely gets upset. Everyone else was ok with it. I may swap it out for Magus of the Moon. Easier to deal with.

Hm, so I got yelled at the other day for playing Blood Moon. This was from a guy that very rarely gets upset. Everyone else was ok with it. I may swap it out for Magus of the Moon. Easier to deal with.

This sounds like a rather harsh reaction from the player. Is Blood Moon common in your area or something? The reaction, based on your description of the player, sounds as if there is some other underlying problem.

Constant mass land destruction?-->Bad form.Forcing players to utilize basic lands/mana rocks?-->Annoying, but manageable in nearly all the forms I can think of currently.

To be fair, there are very very few Blood Moons run in our meta. People just aren't prepared to deal with it and it will shut some people out of the game. I used it to bork the blue player's blue mana base so I could cast a game winning Insurrection.

I honestly thought I'd get crap for playing Insurrection. I don't particularly like the card but it fits the theme here and is good for wrapping up long games. We have a bunch of sac outlets in our meta so most of the time, it just ends up being a wrath.

The person that got upset at Blood Moon is a very good, well respected player. He always has strong but fair EDH decks and is generally one of the better people to play with. This is why I am surprised at his reaction. He had very large number of non-basics in play. He compared it to Decree of Annihilation and Armageddon. In my experience, I've locked more people out of the game with Torpor Orb than I have with Blood Moon. The only reason I'm going to make the change is because I do respect his opinion.

I could use another wincon or two. I wouldn't mind having something other than Insurrection and Colossus of Akros.

To be fair, there are very very few Blood Moons run in our meta. People just aren't prepared to deal with it and it will shut some people out of the game. I used it to bork the blue player's blue mana base so I could cast a game winning Insurrection.

I honestly thought I'd get crap for playing Insurrection. I don't particularly like the card but it fits the theme here and is good for wrapping up long games. We have a bunch of sac outlets in our meta so most of the time, it just ends up being a wrath.

The person that got upset at Blood Moon is a very good, well respected player. He always has strong but fair EDH decks and is generally one of the better people to play with. This is why I am surprised at his reaction. He had very large number of non-basics in play. He compared it to Decree of Annihilation and Armageddon. In my experience, I've locked more people out of the game with Torpor Orb than I have with Blood Moon. The only reason I'm going to make the change is because I do respect his opinion.

I could use another wincon or two. I wouldn't mind having something other than Insurrection and Colossus of Akros.

Fair enough.

In the metas I have been able to play in, Blood Moon is also rather scarce. Unfortunately, I strongly disagree with it's comparison to Decree of Annihilation and Armageddon. It can lock unprepared people out of a game, but it very rarely locks everyone out of a game (especially in the same way Decree and Armageddon almost always does). This is, of course, just my experience. Due to this, some abuse of the card seems acceptable to me. Comparing it to some of the worst wreckers of fun still available in this format seems exaggerated at best.

I hope I can be considered as such a respected player someday, in as much as you appear to respect this player, but I hope you'll understand if I find the reaction to have quite the touch of ridiculous (which suggests to me there's something more to this player's reaction than only "that card is basically to Armageddon"). Blood Moon completely shuts down only the few decks which naturally require lots of non-basics--5-color and colorless--and catches some people sporting really expensive manabases on the side. Only 5-color and colorless can't exactly adapt; virtually every other deck can adapt in some way............

You know, I'm not certain why I'm riled up about this. I guess it just seems silly or something......anyway, I've put it in this spoiler so we don't have to look at it. I won't bring this up again.

I'm going to find a spot for the doom engine. It's in my side pile for the deck.

It was odd to say the least. Maybe it was just a bad day for him or something. I'm in the same boat as you, I don't see it as being completely repressive. Also, now that I think about it, it does nothing to colorless decks except maybe remove some utility. (My nonbasics can be used cast my colorless cards? )